Spotify 'back And Functioning Normally' After Global Outage

Spotify says it has fixed an outage that near tens of thousands of users astir nan world incapable to watercourse euphony connected nan app.

The patient said nan level was now "back up and functioning normally".

Spotify has not explained what caused nan problems, but it had earlier said reports of a "security hack" were "completely inaccurate".

Downdetector, which tracks problems pinch online services, showed 20,000 group reported Spotify was not moving astatine astir 13:30 GMT Wednesday.

Spotify says it has much than 675 cardinal users worldwide.

During nan outage users reported they were still capable to play euphony they had downloaded onto their device, nevertheless they were incapable to position artists aliases usage nan hunt usability connected nan app.

After trying to hunt for music, nan app appeared to clip retired and displayed a connection reference "something went wrong" pinch a refresh button.

"We're alert of immoderate issues correct now and are checking them out," nan patient wrote connected societal media successful consequence to rising complaints from users.

On societal media a number of users told nan institution they were unhappy pinch nan outage, and nan effect nan nonaccomplishment of euphony was having.

One urged nan level to hurry up and hole nan rumor arsenic they were astatine nan gym, while different pleaded for a speedy hole arsenic nan nonaccomplishment of euphony was disrupting their revision.

More significantly, immoderate said they would move to rival streaming platforms specified arsenic YouTube aliases Apple Music.